The focus is on the nature and significance of media logic and an ecology of communication
for a theory of mediation and for understanding and investigating political communication …

Social media services have become areas of political communication. Politicians integrate
them in their campaigns, journalists use them as sources and topics, and the public uses …

Which parties use simple language in their campaign messages, and do simple campaign
messages resonate with voters' information about parties? This study introduces a novel link …

Names: Vreese, CH de (Claes Holger), 1974–editor.| Esser, Frank, 1966–editor.| Hopmann,
David Nicolas. Title: Comparing political journalism/edited by Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser …

Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself.
Yet, representative democracy still exists, and the empirical evidence for a secular decline of …

Conflict-framing literature has suffered from a lack of consistent conceptualization and
consequently the aim of this paper is to unravel the dimensionality of conflict frames. We …

Auch wenn es bei Karidi zu Beginn des Fazits heißt „Die bisherigen Ausführungen sprechen
für sich und machen kein ausführliches Fazit nötig “, lohnt es sich doch, einmal Bilanz zu …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview, analysis, and synthesis of theory and
research on the mediatization of politics. The mediatization of politics is defined as a long …

Mediatization and media logic are concepts that enjoy a growing academic popularity. At the
same time, the phenomena that they cover and the empirical proof of their existence and …

Conventional wisdom holds that party leaders matter in democratic elections. As very few
voters have direct contact with party leaders, media are voters' primary source of information …